AN 18TH CENTURY CHINOISERIE DECORATED MIRROR
51cm wide; 78cm high
Plate is heavily worn and doesn’t actually provide much of a reflection, some losses to the paint, and cracks in places, see additional images. Backboard is not original to the piece and is a later…
Hammer price:
£350
Estimate: £300 - £500
14 January 2025
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14 January 2025
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AN EARLY VICTORIAN MAHOGANY BOW-FRONT STICK BAROMETER
By Adie & Son, Edinburgh
With a stepped rectangular pediment above the signed silvered dial with vernier scale, above a figured veneered bow front, above a rectangular block cistern cover100cm highIMPORTANT INFORMATIONThis…
Hammer price:
£550
Estimate: £200 - £400
5 December 2024
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5 December 2024
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A VICTORIAN ROSEWOOD STICK BAROMETER
Retailed by West, London, circa 1880
With arched case, glazed dial and ivory chamfered scales and micrometer, above a plain trunk inset with an ivory scale thermometer, above circular reservoir and domed cover92cm highIMPORTANT…
Hammer price:
£150
Estimate: £100 - £150
5 December 2024
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5 December 2024
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A CARVED-IVORY-MOUNTED MAHOGANY LARGE WALL BRACKET
Second half 19th Century
The canted rectangular top, above a stepped frieze, supported by five scrolled brackets, terminating in a carved leaf finial48cm high; 52cm wideIMPORTANT INFORMATION This lot contains ivory and has…
Hammer price:
£350
Estimate: £300 - £500
5 December 2024
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5 December 2024
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XII ROYAL LANCERS - A SILVER AND SILVER PLATE PRESENTATION MANTEL…
By Goldsmiths Company, 112 Regent Street, London, Hallmarked 1902
Designed with a silver plated equestrian figure of a XII Lancer, on a silver stepped base, above a rectangular silver-clad case, the front with a glazed 3in silvered dial, engraved ROYAL LANCER XII…
Hammer price:
£7,000
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
5 December 2024
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5 December 2024
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SIR GEORGE AIRY'S TRANSIT OF VENUS 1874 EXPEDITION - A VICTORIAN BRASS…
By Charles Frodsham, 84 Strand, London, No. 3178, Circa 1860
In a two-tier brass-bound rosewood box (missing hinged upper lid), with glazed observation panel, the front with circular maker's ivory roundel, above a shaped brass escutcheon and further ivory…
Hammer price:
£4,800
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
5 December 2024
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5 December 2024
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A GEORGE III BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY STRIKING & REPEATING VERGE BRACKET…
By Bennington & Thorpe, London, Circa 1790
The broken-arched case surmounted by a brass carrying handle, above a single pad, with moulded cornice, above arched glazed panel door, the sides each with an arched fish-scale pierced brass grille…
Hammer price:
£2,200
Estimate: £1,200 - £1,800
5 December 2024
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5 December 2024
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AN EBONISED QUARTER REPEATING AND STRIKING VERGE TABLE CLOCK
By Matthieu Le Roy, London, Circa 1700
The inverted bell top case surmounted by a bold knopped handle with ring turned drum terminals, above a glazed panel door and sound fret, the sides each with a glazed panel below a fret, with hinged…
Hammer price:
£3,800
Estimate: £2,500 - £4,000
5 December 2024
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5 December 2024
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A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND BOXWOOD-INLAID LANCET MANTEL CLOCK
By William John Upjohn, London, Circa 1820
The lancet-shaped case inset with a brass fret panel to the front and inlaid with boxwood lines and shaped panels, flanked by a slender three-quarter cluster column to each corner, with brass bezel…
Hammer price:
£500
Estimate: £600 - £1,000
5 December 2024
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5 December 2024
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A GEORGE III GILTMETAL-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BRACKET CLOCK
Rol Fawney, London
The break-arch case surmounted by a brass carrying handle, above arched glazed door, with a brass fish-scale grille panel to each side, the 7in cream-painted dial detailed Rol Fawney, London, with…
Hammer price:
£320
Estimate: £400 - £600
5 December 2024
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5 December 2024
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BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). The Last Night of the Earth Poems, Santa Rosa…
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). The last Night of the Earth Poems. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1992. Large 8vo (230 x 150mm). Title printed in orange and black, monochrome photographed portrait of…
Estimate: £700 - £1,000
4 December 2024
, 17:00 GMT
4 December 2024
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CLARKE, Graham (b.1941, illustrator). Balyn and Balan, Ebenezer Press, …
CLARKE, Graham (b.1941, illustrator). Balyn and Balan. Boughton Moncheslea, Kent: Ebenezer Press, [1969]. Folio (510 x 355mm). Coloured linocut title, text and plates by Graham Clarke, printed on 16…
Estimate: £300 - £500
4 December 2024
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4 December 2024
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CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Chance, London, 1913, 8vo, original green…
CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Chance. A Tale in Two Parts. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1913. 8vo (190 x 125mm). Half title, publisher's advertisement on the verso of the title, title with "First…
Hammer price:
£200
Estimate: £300 - £500
4 December 2024
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4 December 2024
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CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Lord Jim, New York, 1900, 8vo, original green…
CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Lord Jim. A Romance. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1900. 8vo (198 x 130mm). Half title, title within double rule border with woodcut device (some very light mainly…
Estimate: £100 - £150
4 December 2024
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4 December 2024
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CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Nostromo, London, 1904, 8vo, (some staining…
CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Nostromo. A Tale of the Seaboard. London: Harper & Brothers, 1904. 8vo (184 x 125mm). Half title, publisher's advertisement on the verso of half title, woodcut printer's…
Estimate: £300 - £500
4 December 2024
, 17:00 GMT
4 December 2024
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CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Under Western Eyes, London, 1911, 8vo, half…
CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Under Western Eyes. London: Methuen & Co., 1911. 8vo (192 x 125mm). Half title, publisher's advertisements on the verso of half title, 32-pages of publisher's…
Estimate: £200 - £300
4 December 2024
, 17:00 GMT
4 December 2024
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[DEFOE, Daniel ([?]1661-1731)]. The Fortunate Mistress, London, 1724, 8vo,…
[DEFOE, Daniel ([?]1661-1731)]. The Fortunate Mistress: Or, A History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Call'd The Countess de Wintselheim, in Germany.…
Hammer price:
£16,000
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
4 December 2024
, 17:00 GMT
4 December 2024
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EUCLID (fl. 300 BC) & Christopher CLAVIUS (1538-1612). Euclidis…
EUCLID (fl. 300 BC) & Christopher CLAVIUS (1538-1612). Euclidis elementorum libri XV. [Second volume: Euclidis posteriores libri IX] Accessit XVI. de Solidorum regularium cuius libet intra quodlibet…
Hammer price:
£380
Estimate: £400 - £600
4 December 2024
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4 December 2024
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FEININGER, Lyonel (1871-1956). A series of 15 letters, of which two…
FEININGER, Lyonel (1871-1956, German-American expressionist painter). A series of 15 letters, of which two autograph and the remainder typed, all but three signed ("Leo" or "Larry"), sent to "Fritz"…
Hammer price:
£1,900
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
4 December 2024
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4 December 2024
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935). Crusader Castles,…
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - Thomas Edward LAWRENCE [i.e. "Lawrence of Arabia"] (1888-1935). Crusader Castles, edited by A. W. Lawrence. London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1936. 2 volumes, 4to (250 x…
Hammer price:
£650
Estimate: £700 - £1,000
4 December 2024
, 17:00 GMT
4 December 2024
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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van (1563-1611). Histoire de la Navigation ... Aux…
LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van (1563-1611). Histoire de la Navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois: Aux Indes Orientales. Contenant diverses Descriptions des lieux iusques à present descouverts…
Hammer price:
£16,000
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
4 December 2024
, 17:00 GMT
4 December 2024
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MANWOOD, John (d.1610). A Treatise of the Laws of the Forest ... The Third…
MANWOOD, John (d.1610). A Treatise of the Laws of the Forest, Wherein is declaered not onely those Laws, as they are now in force, but also the Original and beginning of Forests; and what a Forest…
Hammer price:
£200
Estimate: £300 - £500
4 December 2024
, 17:00 GMT
4 December 2024
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MITFORD, Nancy (1904-73). The Pursuit of Love, London, 1945, 8vo, original…
MITFORD, Nancy (1904-73). The Pursuit of Love. A Novel. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1945, 8vo (184 x 120mm). Half title, title printed in red and black (printing crease to pp.61/62 only very slightly…
Hammer price:
£170
Estimate: £200 - £300
4 December 2024
, 17:00 GMT
4 December 2024
, 17:00 GMT
OMMANNEY, Edward Lacon, Colonel (1834-1914). Autograph letter, signed ("E.…
OMMANNEY, Edward Lacon (1834-1914), Colonel. Autograph letter, signed ("E. L. Ommaney"), to "Graham" [an unknown recipient], with the blindstamp of the Colonial Office, 10th April 1902, three-pages,…
Hammer price:
£45
Estimate: £100 - £150
4 December 2024
, 17:00 GMT
4 December 2024
, 17:00 GMT